Arson And Espionage
Arson And Espionage We Will Now Pass To A Few Examples Of The Resort To Open Violence For The Attainment Of The Trust's Ends. The Tide Water Pipe Line Was Started By Lombard, Ayres & Co., New York Refiners, And Others, On The Publication Of The Rutter Circular ; And ...
Bribery The Archboldletters
Bribery : The Archbold Letters Standard Oil People Have Undoubtedly Practised Bribery Throughout A Long Series Of Years And On The Most Comprehensive Scale, And That Not Merely To Avert A Temporary Danger Or Get Themselves Out Of An Unex Pected Scrape, But As A Matter Of Ordinary Business Routine. ...
France
France Standard Was Artful Enough To Strengthen Its Position By Acquiring Existing Oil Companies And Retaining Certain Prominent German Oil Merchants As Share Holders, Thus Breaking To Some Extent The Force Of The Natural Outcry Against Itself As An Alien Corporation. In The Case Of Its English Companies, Very Few ...
Galicia Russia
Russia, Galicia, And Roumania Next To Russia, There Is No Doubt That In The Past This Was A Far More Dangerous Competitor Of The Standard Than It Now Is. The Baku Output Was At First So Tremendous That It Seriously Disarranged The Standard's Calculations, And When First Russian Shipowners And ...
The Birth Of The
The Birth Of The Trust Arrangements Which Have Now Been Described Were The Foundation On Which The Standard Oil Trust Was Built. Some Time In The Summer Of 1874, When He Had Become Sure That The So-called " Equalisation " Scheme Would Be Worked In His Favour By The Railroads ...
The Bogus Independents
The " Bogus Independents." Constant Policy Of The Standard Through Out Its Whole Career Has Been Superabun Dantly Proved To Be To Cut Prices Where There Is Competition, And Where There Is None To Raise Them To The Utmost Point That Customers Will Go To. The Standard Has Found That ...
The Flash Point Scandal
The Flash-point Scandal Time To Devote A Little Attention To One Of The Standard's Great Triumphs In This Country—the Staving Off Until This Present Day Of The Legislative Raising Of The Flash-point Of Petroleum. I Desire To Make This Explana Tion Short And Simple. The Flash-point Is The Temperature At ...
The Lubricating Oil Trade
The Lubricating Oil Trade Time Now To Turn To The Standard's Other English Branch, The Vacuum Oil Company, Limited, Which Posed At First As An American Company Entirely Independent And Unconnected With The Standard. It Was Registered At Somer Set House As A Limited Liability Company, With A Capital Of ...
The Men And The
The Men And The Monopoly Has Lately Arisen At Queen Anne's Gate, On The Site Of A Fine Victorian Mansion Demolished To Make Room For It, A Gigantic Palace, Steel-framed In The Up-to-date Style, Clad In Portland Stone, Towering Seven Stories High Above The Neighbouring Buildings, Looking Down Upon Buckingham ...
The Railroads And The
The Railroads And The Pipe Lines Contract Between The Railroads And The South Improvement Company Was Signed, And Armed With This Deadly Weapon, Mr. Rockefeller Went Round To All The Rival Refineries In Cleveland And Explained To Their Respective Proprietors, Gently But Firmly, That They Were As Good As Dead ...
The Rockefellers And The
The Rockefellers And The Home Office The Juggle By Which The Low Flash-point Was Thus Stereotyped In The Act Of 1879 Had Its Effects. The Number Of Petroleum Accidents Began To Increase, And So Sir. V. Majendie Was Sent To Visit 242 Places In England And The Continent And Then ...
The Secret Rebate
The Secret Rebate There Are Those Who Will Tell You That It Has Been Accomplished Because John D. Rockefeller Was Thrifty ; There Are Others Who Are Persuaded By The Standard's Press Bureau To Believe That It Is Due To The Standard's Economies In Production And Improvements In Transport. Neither ...
The Standards Inventions
The Standard's " Inventions " Standard Achieved Other Ends By Its System Of Creating Bogus Competitors, Besides Avoiding Public Odium. It Was Enabled By Their Operation To Carry On A Competitive Warfare Cheaply. The " Bogus Independents " Bought Oil From The Genuine Independents, And Proceeded To Retail It At ...
The Trust In America
The Trust In America And Asia We Have Been Dealing With The History Of The Standard Oil Trust On Its Native Heath, The United States Of America. It Is Now Time To Pass In Brief Review Some Of Its Operations In Foreign Countries. It Appears In Many Lands, This Protean ...
The Trusts Tiedhouses
The Trust's " Tied Houses " In England Reserved Until The End Of My Survey The Examination Of The Standard Oil Trust's Operations In Great Britain, Because, As They Have Not Been Investigated So Closely Here As They Have Been By Various Legislative Commit Tees In The United States, There ...